The Health Benefits Of Tackling Climate Change

At a briefing held simultaneously in London and Washington DC Richard Horton, Editor of The Lancet, Andy Haines, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Anil Markandya from the Basque Centre for Climate Change in Bilbao, Spain, and Paul Wilkinson, James Woodcock and Alan Dangour from the London School tell Sarah Maxwell and Peter Goodwin about their findings, just published in a special edition of the Lancet, on the consequences to human health of mitigating the effects of greenhouse gas emissions. In agriculture and food, urban transportation, electricity generation and home energy use the Lancet data showed large positive effects on human health over the next few decades if we choose the right strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.